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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
tra inducement to new subscribers this 
month, and will thus help those collect¬ 
ing premium clubs. Multitudes can se¬ 
cure a large premium list this month. 
A G©©al Sits mess.' —While most 
persons only give odd hours and rainy 
days to gathering names, and receive the 
premiums themselves, a large number 
have made it a regular business for 
several months in each year. They col¬ 
lect and forward the names, receive the 
Premiums free, sell them (for they are 
all good, and readily salable ,) and thus 
realize a good income-—two, three, four, 
and five hundred dollars, or more. In 
one case a Lady has received thus over 
$ 3 , 00 ® a year. She has been unusu¬ 
ally successful, but there is no reason 
why many others may not do similarly, 
at least on a smaller scale. 
Explanatory Notes. ^ 
Read and carefully Note tJae 
following Ileitis: The Table, on page 401, tells the 
name ancl cash price of each article, and (in last column 
hut one), gives the number of names sent in at the regu¬ 
lar price of $1.60 a year that will secure any premium ar¬ 
ticle. (The last column gives the number of names at 
the lowest club price for 20 or more names, that is $1.10 
each, but only a part of the premiums come under this 
head. Some persons quickly raise large clubs by taking 
all the names at $1.10 each, and themselves pay the 
difference, 50 cents each, and even thus get the premium 
articles very cheaply.)_ (a) All subscribers sent by 
one person count, though from several different Post- 
offices. But_(5) Tell us with each name or list of 
names sent, that it is for a premium_ (c) Send the 
names as fast as obtained , that the subscribers may begin 
to receive the paper at once. You can have any time you 
wish, up to next July, to complete your list, but every 
premium desired will be sent as soon as earned and or¬ 
dered.... (cQ Send the exact money with each list of 
names, so that there may be no confusion of money ac¬ 
counts_ (e) Old and new subscribers all count in pre¬ 
mium clubs, but a portion at least should be new names ; 
it is partly to get these that we offer premiums to canvas¬ 
sers— (/) One or two Specimen Numbers, etc., will be 
supjj^ied free, as needed by canvassers, (when 3 cents per 
copy is furnished to pre-pay postage), but they are ex¬ 
pensive, and should be used carefully and economical¬ 
ly, and where they will tell. Other specimen numbers 
will be sent, post-paid, to canvassers only, tor 10 cents 
each. The price to others is 15 cents .. ..(g) Remit money 
in Checks on New York Banks or Bankers, payable to 
order of Orange Judd Company, or send Post-office Money 
Orders. If neither of these is obtainable, Register Money 
Letters, affixing stamps both for the postage and registry; 
put in the money and seal the letter in the presence of 
the Post-master, and take his receipt for it. Money sent 
in any of the above ways is at our risk; otherwise it is not. 
E2T Premium Articles for Sale. 
It sometimes happens that persons, who have not time 
to secure these valuable and useful articles by raising 
clubs of subscribers, are desirous of purchasing one or 
more of them, and wish ns to procure or select them. 
For the accommodation of such, we will supply and send 
most of these premiums for cash, at the prices in the follow¬ 
ing Descriptive List, and prepaid or otherwise, as stated. 
This entire paper, including these Premium 
pages, is Copyrighted. 
Silver-Plated Ware.—Important. 
Dissolve Cyanide of Silver in water. Take a piece of 
lead, pewter, or almost any other metal, and after pre¬ 
paring its surface, fasten it to the negative wire of an 
Electric Battery, and dip it into the dissolved Cyanide of 
Silver. In a minute or two the whole surface will be 
completely covered with a coat of pure silver. Nothing 
but silver can be seen, though the coating may not 
be the thousandth part in thickness of the thinnest 
tissue paper. Every minute the metal remains in the 
solution, more silver is deposited, and the process can 
go on until half an inch or more of pure silver is deposit¬ 
ed, though to the unpractised observer no 
more silver will show than at the end of the 
first few minutes. Taking advantage of this, 
unscrupulous persons coat baser metals with 
the thin silver film, and sell them at an 
enormous profit. The purchaser finds, after 
a little lime, that the silver is gone.' Thickly 
coated ware will last many years, and be 
just as serviceable as if the whole xver a pure 
solid silver, and look just as well, while 
costing far less. If the thick silver coating 
be put on a white metal, oven if a corner 
or other spot gets worn off, the coated metal 
will not show. After long use, plated ware 
can be rc-plated as good as new, at moderate expense. 
Wehave articles constantly used eight and ten years, and 
still showing nothing but silver. In buying silver-plated 
ware, everything depends upon the honesty of the manu¬ 
facturer, and the judgment of the buyer or seller.—We 
Premium 
and secure the above splendid Tea Set free, for his wife 
or a friend. Many a young man can thus get one for a 
mother, a sister, or friend. Any lady can get a Set for 
have taken great care, in selecting articles to offer to our 
readers, to get not only those of superior style, but those 
which we can warrant to be heavily plated, and exactly 
as represented. Such articles as these are the first four¬ 
teen (1-14) Premiums described below. Our readers who 
get any of these, as Premiums, or by purchase, may rely 
upon having first-rate articles, and as cheaply as they 
can be honestly made. They can find plenty of similar 
articles, at less than half the prices named, and that 
will look as well for a few weeks, or months, if not 
used, but they will be very dear.— N. IS. The first 
Eleven Premiums are made for us by the Middletown 
Plate Company, at Middletown, Conn. Mr. Judd is 
well acquainted with this Company and its Officers, and 
visits the extensive works very ircquently. observing the 
process of manufacture, and he confidently recommends 
their work as being just what it professes to be—and 
every way reliable. A similar recommendation can be 
given for the Premiums 12, 13, and 14, from the Me¬ 
riden Cutlery Company, whose work is first-rate. 
No. 1.—Tea Set.—This Is a fdplcntlitl 
Set of six pieces, full size, viz.: a Coffee Pot, a Tea Pot, 
a Water-Pot. a Sugar Bowl, a Cream Cup, and a Slop 
Bowl— tasteful enough for the most stylish mansion 
—all beautiful, of uniform design, late pattern, with 
raised and embossed figure work. They are none of the 
common cheap silver-washed stuff that will look finely 
so long as unused, but are the best triple-plate on white 
metal. (See notes on plated ware, just above.) For all 
practical purposes, and for ornament, they will be as good 
as solid silver, for years. This No. 1, (and the others 
also), afford to a multitude of persons a rare opportunity 
to get beautiful and useful articles for home use and for 
wedding and other gifts. It will be comparatively easy 
to collect names of subscribers enough to secure one or 
more of these articles. In a few evenings a gentleman 
could easily get the 66 subscribers only, at $1.60 each, 
herself in a brief time. [We will forward one of these ele¬ 
gant sets on receipt of $50.] Receiver to pay expressage. 
No. 2.—Ice (or water) RItcfacr.— 
A large, highly Ornamental Article, that will adorn the 
table, as well as serve a 
very useful purpose, 
and last many years, 
with no danger of 
breakage. It is enmo 
make, same metal, plat¬ 
ing, etc., as No. I. 
Send us only 20 sub¬ 
scribers, at $1.60 each, 
and you will have this 
splendid Pitcher.—For 
26 subscribers, at $1.60 
each, we will give the 
Pitcher anda round 
Salver, of pattern 
to correspond, (value 
$17.50). — For 42 sub¬ 
scribers we will send 
the Pitcher and a 
large 14-inch Oblong 
Salvor (value $28.00), 
which is large enough 
to hold the Pitcher and 
two goblets. — For 49 
subscribers, we will 
send the Pitcher, 
the Oblong Salver, 
and a pair of beautiful 
Goblets, silver without, and gold-plated inside, 
(value $34.75.) This Complete Set is exceedingly de¬ 
sirable, though the Pitcher alone, or that with the 
Round Tray, or the large Oblong Salver, will answer wen 
for use and for ornament.—[W e will sell the Pitcher, and 
any one or all the articles above mentioned, at the prices 
given with each.] Receiver to pay expressage. 
